The Byzantine Empire
Basil I the Macedonian, 867 – 886 and associate ruler from 868. Solidus 882 (?), AV 4.46 g. + bASILIOS – AЧGЧSt'b' Facing bust of Basil with short beard, wearing crown with cross on circlet and loros, holding globe surmounted by patriarchal cross. Rev. COnStAntIS ЄVdOSIA – T Facing busts of Constantine on l., beardless, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, and Eudocia, on r., wearing loros and crown with cross and two pinnacles, holding cross-tipped sceptre. DO 3.4. Sear 1703.
Exceedingly rare. Minor marks on obverse and reverse, otherwise extremely fine